[30] See that excellent work, The Manual of the Inquisition.
[31] This horrible doctrine must not wholly be relegated to the eighteenth century and the Middle Ages. It is still solemn Catholic doctrine, defined by the Vatican Council in 1870, that no atheist or agnostic, whether in good or bad faith, can be saved.—J. M.
[32] Daughter of the Emperor Diocletian. Not executed by Christians.—J. M.
[33] The homily is supposed to have been delivered in London.—J. M.
[34] Greece threw off the Turkish yoke in 1827.—J. M.
[35] In the Greek, Latin, and modern Bibles it is “firmament.” In the Hebrew text it is “expanse,” though other passages show that it refers to the solid vault or firmament of the Babylonians.—J. M.
[36] The Rev. Professor Sayce regards Job as a piece of north Arabian or Edomite literature, borrowed by the Jews.—J. M.
[37] Ninety years old (Genesis xvii., 17).—J. M.
[38] A shaft at the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.—J. M.
[39] See the Acts of St. Thecla, written in the first century by a disciple of St. Paul, and recognised as authentic by Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Gregory of Nazianzum, St. Ambrose, etc.